Problem with a tuple - newbie ignorance

Neil Schemenauer nas at arctrix.com
Tue Jan 16 12:15:19 EST 2001


On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 11:30:29PM +0000, Keith F. Woeltje wrote:
> Normal (forward) slashes won't however work in a command prompt
> window in Win2000.  Does the python interpreter make the change
> "magically" (like it does the end of line marker)?

No.  I believe the Win32 API accepts either / or \ as a path
separator .  Its the command shell that's braindead.  They can't
use / because its used to signal a flag.  I guess Win2000 still
shows its CP/M heritage.

  Neil




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